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I love vim (discuss.tchncs.de)

I am a vscodium user who has begun to get increasingly frustrated over lack of commands to do some simple things.
So, as a longtime GNU/Linux user, who only knew basic commands to survive in vim, I decided to change my habits.
installed flavours of neovim(lunarvim, nvchad, and astronvim, in that order) and started tinerking. then switched to kick start.nvim.
on Android, I'm using plain neovim since there seems to be some missing lib for mason, the neovim package manager.
passing away of Bram Moolenaar has made me accelerate faster towards the day where my machine would be clean of any electron bloat.

I'm still very much a novice, and continue using codium in office, but I am committed to using neovim as I believe it's truly a great editor(second to Emacs, of course).


image transcription:
famous still of Nicholas cage with his eyes closed, smiling as his hair flow.
above it is the text that reads, 'learning about ci" in vim.'

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[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

I love vim and vim based editors.

I used to use stock Vim but recently I've started using Helix which is like a more user friendly version of vim (copying to clipboard is easy) and I'm loving it!

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 9 points 10 months ago

If it's easier to use how are we supposed to keep the Emacs people away?

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago

wow, good to know that there are still terminal-based text editors being developed.

I'll surely try it.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Helix is pretty cool, I think the Lemmy devs use it too.

I use it because it's purple and I like purple.

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

royal choice, I see :)

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Whoa that website's demo video is selectable text that plays like a video

[-] generic@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 10 months ago
[-] sickday@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

+1 for Helix. I found it recently and it feels way easier to make changes and add support for new languages.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If only they would support vim keybindings

[-] driveway@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Helix's editing model is much more preferable to vim's for me but the editor is not at all hackable so I can't daily drive it yet. Unfortunately, the development is not going that fast either. It takes months for my PRs to be even reviewed for the first time, let alone merge.

this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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